1452970A Supplication for the Beggars — BibliographyEdward Arber

Bibliography of Simon Fish's Works.

A Supplication for the Beggers.

ISSUES IN HIS LIFETIME.

A. As a separate publication.

1. [1529. Printed abroad.] 8vo. See title at p. 1. Wholly printed in a clear italic type.
2. 1529. [Printed abroad.] 4to. Klagbrieff oder supplication der armen dürfftigen in Engenlandt an den König daselb gestellet widder die reychen geystlichen bettler. [A Letter of Complaint or Supplication of the necessitous poor in England shewn to the King thereof against the rich spiritual beggars] M.D.XXIX. [with a preface by Sebastian Franck.] Black letter.
3. 1530. [Printed abroad.] 8vo. Supplicatorius Libellus pauperum, et egentium nomine, Henricho VIII. Serenissimo Angliæ regi etc. oblatus, contra quotidianas religiosorum ibidem iniurias et impiam auariciam. Ex Anglico in latinum uersus, M. D.XXX.
In the same type and style as No. 1, and with an engraved framework on the title page that may eventually lead to a knowledge of the foreign printer of both the editions.

B. With other Works.
None known.

ISSUES SINCE HIS DEATH.

A. As a separate publication.

4. 1546. [London] Fol. A supplication of the poore Commons. Prov. 21 Chap. ¶ Whereunto is added the Supplication of Beggers. [In the same style and type as No. 3. below, and therefore printed by William Hyll.] In the heading the "Supplicacyon of Beggers" is assigned to 1524, which is wrong by five years.
5. 1845. London. 8vo. A Supplicacyon for the Beggers. [100 copies only printed.]
6. 1680. Fol. See Wood's Ath. Oxon. i. 59. Ed. 1813.
15. Aug. 1878 Southgate, London, N. 8vo. The present impression.

B. With other Works.

8a. 1563. London. Fol. This tract is reprinted, with notes by John Fox in his Actes and Monumentes etc.
8b. 1570. London. Fol.
8c. 1576. London. Fol. And so in all later editions of the Book of Martyrs.
8d. 1583. London. Fol.
9. 1871. London. 8vo. Early English Text Society. Extra Series. No. 13, 1871. "Four Supplications. 1529–1553 A.D." The first of these is "A Supplicacyon for the Beggers written about the year 1529, by Simon Fish. Now re-edited by Frederick J. Furnivall."


The Summe of the Scripture.

ISSUES IN HIS LIFETIME.

A. As a separate publication.

1. [Winter of 1529–1530. Printed abroad.] 8vo. The only copy at present known is in the British Museum. C. 37. a/2. The title page is torn off, apparently for the safety of the first possessors.

B. With other Works.
None known.

ISSUES SINCE HIS DEATH.

A. As a separate publication.

2. 1547. London, W. Herbert, Typ. Ant. 1. 616, Ed. 1785, quotes an edition by John Day.
3. 11. Dec. 1548. [London.] 8vo. The summe of the holy Scripture, and ordinarye of the Chrystian teachyng, the true Christian fayth, by the whiche we be all iustified. And of the vertu of Baptisme, after the teachynge of the Gospell and of the Apostles, With an information howe all estattes should lyue according to the Gospell very necessary for all Christian people to knowe. ¶ Anno. M.d.xlviii.
[Colophon]: Imprynted at London, at the signe of the Hyll, at the west dore of Paules. By Wyllyam Hill. And there to be sold. Anno 1548. The 11 of Decembre. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio ad Imprimendum soluus..
The press mark of the British Museum copy is 4401. b. 2.

B. With other Works.
None known.